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Title

X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC)

Description

Image of the XQC array mounted on a circuit board and installed in the flight detector box. The XQC experiment is composed of a 36 pixel microcalorimeter X-ray detector. The entire array is micromachined from a single piece of silicon with each pixel measuring 0.5 x 2.0 mm.

Subject

  • X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC)
  • Detector
  • Microcalorimeter

Credits

NASA/GSFC/University of Wisconsin-Madison

Type

Photographic

Associated Lesson

X-ray Tools

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under Grant Nos. NNX09AD33G and NNX10AE80G issued through the SMD ROSES 2009 Program.

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